My artistic approach is process-based and includes a variety of mediums: drawing, painting, mixed-media, video and music. The work projects can span years. Large scale projects include:
- Memory Circles – a new series of 14″x18″ reclaimed panel paintings.
- Ambiencrush – a series of 20-30 minute meditation pieces, beginning with music compositions that are being complimented with a video component. The first complete piece, was on display in the Meditation Room instalation vimeo.com-Retrograde during the 2019 Shoreline Artists Trail.
- Fractalry – a 3-Dimensional Fractal project with video and still image output and a live studio installation project;
- String Theory – this includes a dozen sketchbooks, a series of mixed media pigment prints, that are realized incased in epoxy resin, and a drawing series Fragments of charcoal and pastel works on paper;
- Zero Time – a multi-media piece, that has three primary components – Drawings, Paintings, and a video component that includes over 60 hours of recorded video, with an accompanying music score, that has been in production since 1999;
- HA Chamber – a home audio chamber music ensemble, founded in 2014 that is currently developing a multi-media chamber music piece Enclosure.
I am attracted to both intimate work, particularly works on paper, and broader immersive media experiences. The intimate work provides a ongoing, consistent referential output that is a cross reference to the longer output cycles of the media works in process. The unifying component to the diverse body of my work is impermanence. It is reflected in my personal, spiritual beliefs and my life experience which includes witness to significant and dramatic personal loss. My influences are varied but have more emphasis in music and media artists including Ryuchi Sakamoto – Sitesakamoto.com, Brian Eno – Brian-eno.net, Bill Viola – Billviola.com, Mark Mothersbaugh – mutato.com, and artists I studied with including Bob Culley, Peter Campus – PeterCampus.net, Richard Myers.
My work is shown under my own identity and ABTechno an artist collective that I founded.
November, 2019 Philip Goetz